Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022 Dec;143:104948. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104948. Epub 2022 Nov 5.
Dozens of studies, most conducted in the last four decades, have implicated oxytocin, as well as vasopressin and their receptors, in processes that mediate selective sociality and the consequences of early experience. Oxytocin is critical for the capacity to experience emotional safety and healthy sexuality. Oxytocin also plays a central role in almost every aspect of physical and mental health, including the coordination of sociality and loving relationships with physiological reactions to challenges across the lifespan. Species, including prairie voles, that share with humans the capacity for selective social bonds have been a particularly rich source of insights into the behavioral importance of peptides. The purpose of this historical review is to describe the discovery of a central role for oxytocin in behavioral interactions associated with love, and in the capacity to use sociality to anticipate and cope with challenges across the lifespan - a process that here is called "sociostasis."
数十项研究表明，催产素以及加压素和它们的受体，参与了调节选择性社会关系和早期经验后果的过程。催产素对于体验情感安全和健康的性行为至关重要。催产素在身心健康的几乎各个方面都起着核心作用，包括协调性社会关系和恋爱关系，以及对整个生命周期中各种挑战的生理反应。包括草原田鼠在内的一些物种与人类一样，具有选择性的社会纽带，它们为了解肽类在行为上的重要性提供了特别丰富的信息来源。本历史综述的目的是描述催产素在与爱相关的行为互动以及在利用社会性来预测和应对整个生命周期中的挑战方面的核心作用的发现，这一过程在这里被称为“社会稳定”。
